43 Inspirational Quotes About Dance

Whether you’re drunk at a wedding, or performing at the highest level, sometimes you need a little inspiration. Some of these quotes are funny, some are serious, but they will all motivate you to be the best dang dancer you can be.

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.-Edwin Denby

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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.-Voltaire

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While I dance I can not judge, I can not hate, I can not separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. This is why I dance.-Hans Bos

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Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.-Satchel Paige

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Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn’t seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance.-Whitney Scott

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The dance is over, the applause subsided, but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever.-W.M. Tory

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People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.-Judith Jamison

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There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.-Barbara Lazear Ascher

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If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.-George Bernard Shaw

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When the music changes, so does the dance.-African proverb

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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.-Eckhart Tolle

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Dancing is like dreaming with your feet.-Constanze

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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.-Martha Graham

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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.-Neil Gaiman

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When a dancer comes on stage, he is not just a blank slate… Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life… You are looking at the person he is, the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be… Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people… people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest… They know who they are and they show this to you, willingly.- Mikhail Baryshnikov

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It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.-Shanna LaFleur

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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.-Warren G. Bennis

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Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.-Oprah Winfrey

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Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It’s the rhythm of your life. It’s the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.-Jacques D’Amboise

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.-Ted Shawn

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To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.-Osho

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To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.-Hopi Indian Saying

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts. For it is no mere translation or abstraction of life. It is life itself.-Henry Havelock

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Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let’s dance.-James Howe